DALLAS, Texas — A Dallas woman brutally injured by an unleashed pit bull earlier this month is now learning the dog had attacked someone before, but a key legal step was never taken that could have changed what happened next.
Toni Hudson was walking in her Oak Cliff neighborhood near Marfa Drive on Jan. 7 when a pit bull ran out and attacked her, knocking her to the ground and clamping onto her face.
“This dog has been a problem on the street for a long time,” Hudson said. “Everybody on the block knows that the dog is vicious.”
Hudson spent days in the hospital recovering from injuries to her face, mouth, leg and one of her fingers. She told WFAA the attack lasted roughly ten minutes before the owner came out and intervened…